The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-06
Labor Notes.
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| The demand for skilled labor in machine
shops of all kinds throughout the country is
| greater this time than for several years.
| Special arrangements have been made to secure
English and German labor within the next
| ninety days. Farm hands being initiated
| into the mysteries of the machine shop, tempted
| by the higher wages offered. Leading manu-
| facturers beginning to recognize the
very urgent necessity for technical education.
| Foreign laborers, although skilled IN their own
country, have to be in many respects re-taught
| here. A number of shops in Indiana, Illinois
| and west of the Mississippi are at this time in
| need of skilled workmen. and there is an emf
grafton of machinists from the East to the West,
although it has not assumed very large proper
| tons.
| Two million dollars will shortly be invested in
| textile mills in dozen or more Eastern towns.
| The Maine manufacturing centers beginning
to feel the stimulus of increasing manufacturing
activity. Several large cotton concerns
Lonsdale. the Globe. the Merrick and the
Amoskeag. Great improvements are being
introduced into these new mills. The Lonsdale
is finishing of the finest factories ever built.
The Otis Company is building a huge mill, 40
by 11S feet The Pacific Company, at Lawrence,
Mass. is building an immense mill. 444 by "A
feet The Cheney Bros. are building mill 325
by 60 feet. All the Eastern silk mills are very
busy.
The boot and shoe manufacturers of New
England are much pleased over theilatest trade
developments. Dealers are buying fewer high
and more medium priced goods. year ago
the prices ranged all the way from So 80 to 81 So
Z
shoes. Only specialties commanding out
side prices. Everything points to early win
ter business. AT Haverhill the lasters have sue
ceeded in inducing their EN- ployers to accept the
new price list.
The monster steam hammer of Krupp, the
German gunmaker, is nearly two-hundred feet
high. The hammer falls on q block of metal
weighing 1000 tons. One of the cross-peces
bears inscription which, translated. reads:
.Let her go, Fritz" All access to the works is
forbidden. The horse power employed is equal
to 10. 600.
Nearly 200 new manufacturing enterprises
have been started in New England since Jan.
l. OF these twentyslx We're wooden mills.
twenty one Woodworking concerns eighteen
paper mills, seventeen machine shops sixteen
cotton factories. fourteen woodworking con-
Germs and twelve hosiery factories.
There is very heavy demand for cotton ties
from the South, and there is an increasing move
ment of general hardware to that section. One
Pittsburg firm has order that will keep its
immense establishment at work for four months
An Ohio firm expects an ordsr for 5000 tons OF
ties
The clothing manufacturers pursuing a
very cautious course in manufacturing for win
ter distribution. great many foreign goods
are coming in. aud this fact disarrang-J the
plans of American manufacturers Many
workmen have been thrown off.
A company with q capital of $500, 900 has
leased fifteen miles of coal land Paris.
Tex and will open it at once, Capitalists from
East Saginaw, Mich. have purchased two
three counties of West Virginia mineral land to
developit.
window-elass- works are extending through
out the West The cost of freight from Pitts
burg is more than the cost of the ware in some
cases. The Mexican demand for glass is increas
ing yearly.
The paper mills all over the country are very
busy. The makers of paper-mill machinery
have been very active since Jan. 1, and have
now more orders on hand than for years
Nearly all the gassworks in the country
receiving heavy orders. and some manufacturers
think the demand will be strong enough to force
advance before winter.
In English mills a replacement of machinery
is necessary every ten years. In American
mills the machinery, being better made and
lighter, runs much longer.
The manufacturers of agricultural implements
and tools are organizing for the purpose OF ad-
vancing prices and dividing business up among
themselves.
A Bessemer steel plant will be erected at An
timony City Ark, and large iron-fence manu-
factory Will be established at Platusmoutn,
Neb.
One hundred coke ovens will be built at Coal
dale, Ala, and large steel manufacturing
plant will be located al. North Birmingham
Five million dollars has been subscribed to
build new town near Stevenson, Ala where
manufacturing will be done on a large scale
The "pluck-me' stores, against which the
Pennsylvania Legislature raised its arm, are
still fourishing throughout the State.
English manufacturers are jealous of the
prospects opening before the American man
ufacturers of iron and steel.
The Chinese government has bought 1000 tons
of steel rails, and the Indian government has
Just ordered Is, 900 tons.
From all accounts, between 1000 and 5000
coke ovens will be erected during the next twelve
months.
A new steel making concern. with capital of
So, 0O0 900, is to be established in East St
Louis
Knights of Labor in Atlanta, Ga, buy only
from those who advertise in labor papers.
Some splendidly equipped vessels are being
built for freight service the lakes.
new wire-mill will be erected at Braddocks,
Pa. It will employ 100 men.
Workmen at Admission. Ala, iron-works are
paid from 81 to 81 per day.
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